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List of Famous Gardens in India – Static GK

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Famous Gardens in India

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List of Famous Gardens in India

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and
enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. Below we have given the list of gardens
and their details.

Name of the Name of

Details
Garden the location

Acharya
Jagadish The gardens exhibit a wide variety of rare
Chandra Bose Kolkata, plants and a total collection of over
Indian West Bengal 12,000 specimens spread over
Botanic 109 hectares.
Garden

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Name of the Name of

Details
Garden the location

The Auroville Botanical Garden was

started in August 2000 on 50 acres of old
cashew land rescued from the threat of
Auroville
Auroville, real estate development.More than 250
Botanical
Tamil Nadu tree species have been planted in the 25-
Gardens,
acre arboretum, 5,500 specimens have
been planted in the 10-acre conservation
forest.
It is spread across an area of 60 acres
(240,000 m2 ). Adjoining it is also a fruit
Brindhavan Mysore, orchard spread across 75 acres
Garden Karanataka (300,000 m2 ) and 2 horticultural farms,
Nagavana (30 acres) and Chandravana (5
acres).

The well-groomed garden’s centerpiece is

a pond replete with gharials, which used
Chambal Kota, to house magars as well. The pond can
Garden Rajasthan be crossed via a suspension bridge or by
boat to allow a closeup view of the fish-
eating reptiles.

The garden was constructed around the

Chashme Srinagar, J &
spring by the Mughal Governor Ali Mardan
Shahi K
Khan in 1632.

The garden was originally created in the

1650s by the region’s first European
settlers and provided fertile ground to
Allahabad ,
Company grow fresh produce to replenish ships
Uttar
garden rounding the Cape. It is watered from
Pradesh
the Molteno Dam which uses water from
the springs on the lower slopes of Table
Mountain.
The Gardens, also known as Pherozeshah
Mehta Gardens were first built in 1881.
Designed by Ulhas Ghapokar, it is said to
Hanging Mumbai ,
have been built over one of Bombay’s
Garden Maharashtra
main water reservoir to protect it from
getting polluted, particularly by the
nearby towers of silence.

The Jallianwalla Bagh is a public garden

of 6 to 7 acres (28,000 m2), walled on all
Jallianwala Amristar,
sides, with five entrances. To enter,
Bagh Punjab
troops first blocked the entry by a tank
and locked the exit.

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Name of the Name of

Details
Garden the location

Established large living collection of trees

and woody lianas (1000 species);
Medicinal, Aromatic and Spice plants
(1500 species), Pre-tsunami living
Jawaharlal collections from Andaman-Nicobar Islands
Nehru Gangtok, (125 species), Orchids (600 species and
Botanical Sikkim 150 hybrids); Bamboos (60 species);
Garden Rare and Threatened plants( 550
species); Ferns and Fern allies ( 165
species); Palms (105 species), Cyclades (
35 species) and special groups like
Zingibers ( 50 species)

Jhansi
Jhansi, Uttar
Botanical
Pradesh
Garden

It has a number of rides to bring you

endless hours of fun. Spending a day at
Kalindi Kunj New Delhi this water park especially during
summers is the best gift you can give to
yourself.
Lalbagh is a 240 acres (0.97 km2) garden
and is located in south Bengaluru. It
holds a number of flower shows,
Bangalore,
Lal Bagh especially on the Republic Day (26
Karnataka
January). The garden has over 1,000
species of flora. The garden also has
trees that are over 100 years old.

The market outside the garden is very

famous for the handicraft goods sold by
Ahmedabad,
Law garden local people. The road at the side of the
Gujarat
garden is filled with street hawkers selling
all kinds of food items.

Lloyd’s Botanical Garden was established

in 1878 when 40 acres (160,000 m2) of
land was acquired at Darjeeling to form a
Lloyd’s
Darjeeling, botanic garden as a distant annexe of
Botanical
West Bengal the Calcutta Botanical Garden. The land
Garden
was provided by William Lloyd, in whose
name the botanical garden has been
named.

Lodi Garden New Delhi Spread over 90 acres (360,000 m 2 )

It is a combination of a masonry
Malampuzha Palakkad, dam with a length of 1,849 metres and
Garden Kerala an earthen dam with a length of 220
metres

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Name of the Name of

Details
Garden the location

The founder of the Mughal empire, Babur,

Mughal
New Delhi described his favourite type of garden as
garden
a charbagh.

Srinagar , J It is the second largest Mughal garden in

Nishat Bagh
&K the Kashmir Valley.

The Pilikula Arboretum (Pilikula Botanical

Garden) extends over 35 ha. About
Pilikula
Mangalore, 60,000 seedlings belonging to 236 taxa of
Botanical
Karnataka flowering plants of Western Ghats, spread
Garden
over 60 families, have been planted
randomly as well as family clusters.

English author-painter C.M. Villiers-

Stuart, who resided in the gardens for a
Pinjore Panchkula ,
time, included a description in her book
Garden Haryana
on “Gardens of the Great Mughals”
(1913).

Typically, plants found in rock gardens are

small and do not grow larger than 1
meter in height,[1] though small trees
Rock Garden Darjeeling
and shrubs up to 6 meters may be used
to create a shaded area for a woodland
rock garden.

Rock Garden
Today it is spread over an area of 40
of Chandigarh
acres (161874.25 m²).
Chandigarh
Provisional 2011 census data indicates
Saharanpur Saharanpur, that Saharanpur has a population of
Botanical Uttar 705,478, out of which males were
Garden, Pradesh 371,740 and females were 333,738. The
literacy rate was 76.32 per cent.

It is spread over 100 acres (40 ha) of

Sajjan Niwas
Udaipur, land. The garden has innumerable
Garden(Gulab
Rajasthan varieties of roses. Gulab Bagh gets its
Bagh)
name from the abundance of rose flowers

The name ‘SaritaUdyan’ itself suggests its

Gandhinagar,
Sarita Udyan geographical position as ‘Sarita’ means
Gujarat
river and ‘Udyan’ means garden.

The garden, as finally laid out, covers an

area of 12.4 hectares (31 acres) built
Shalimar Srinagar, J &
with a size of 587 metres (1,926 ft)
Bagh K
length on the main axis channel and with
a total width of 251 metres (823 ft).

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Name of the Name of

Details
Garden the location

Here the maximum temperature goes up

to 30 degree Celsius and the minimum
falls to 5°C. The average rain fall of this
garden is 150 cm. It extends over an
Coonoor, area of 12 hectares of undulating land
Sim’s Park
Tamil nadu and possesses a number of natural
advantages. This park has more than
1000 species of 255 generas belonging to
85 families widely covering different
group of plants.

The organisation has an average of 1

million paying visitors per year. Its 326-
The Royal acre site at Kew has 40 historically
Howrah,
Botanical important buildings and collections of
West Bengal
Garden over 40,000 species of plants and it
became a United Nations World Heritage
Site on 3 July 2003.

It is the largest tulip garden in Asia

spread over an area of about 30
Srinagar, J &
Tulip Garden hectares.The garden was opened in 2007
K
with the aim to boost floriculture and
tourism in Kashmir Valley.

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